Data protection
The Amazon shared
responsibility model
For data protection purposes, we recommend that you protect Amazon Web Services account credentials and set up individual user accounts with Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM). That way each user is given only the permissions necessary to fulfill their job duties. We also recommend that you secure your data in the following ways:
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Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.
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Use SSL/TLS to communicate with Amazon resources. We recommend TLS 1.2 or later.
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Set up API and user activity logging with Amazon CloudTrail.
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Use Amazon encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within Amazon services.
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Use advanced managed security services such as Amazon Macie, which assists in discovering and securing personal data that is stored in Amazon S3.
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If you require FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules when accessing Amazon through a command line interface or an API, use a FIPS endpoint. For more information about the available FIPS endpoints, see Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2
. Message data protection
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Message data protection is a new major feature of Amazon SNS
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Use MDP to scan message for confidential or sensitive information
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Provide message auditing to all content flowing through the topic
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Provide content access controls to messages published to the topic and messages delivered by the topic
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Important
We strongly recommend that you never put confidential or sensitive information, such as your customers' email addresses, into tags or free-form fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with Amazon SNS or other Amazon Web Services using the console, API, Amazon CLI, or Amazon SDKs. Any data that you enter into tags or free-form fields used for names may be used for billing or diagnostic logs. If you provide a URL to an external server, we strongly recommend that you do not include credentials information in the URL to validate your request to that server.
The following sections provide additional information about data protection in Amazon SNS.